Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

"Teen Hacker Could Get 38-Year Sentence for Fixing Grades"

By Douglas A. Berman

The headline of this post is the headline of this article from the E-Commerce Times.  Here is start of the piece:They may be just kids, but two Orange County, Calif., teens are accused of committing a whole bunch of grown-up crimes.  The allegations include hacking into school computers to change grades and planting spyware on a district computer.  One of them faces 69 felony charges, which could land him in prison for up to 38 years if he's convicted. The article provides more details to suggest that it is quite unlikely that anyone will be going to prison for decades for hacking.  Indeed, it ends with a set of creative alternative sentencing ideas:Indeed, hacking into school computers isn't new, but it is a serious crime, Parry Aftab, cybercrime lawyer and executive director of WiredSafety...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).